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At the Ballet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2010

Extract

Writing about ballet in a musical review I venture to choose among recently created ballets only those in which music and dance are most strikingly interwoven. I shall, therefore, by-pass Robert Helpmann's sensational monument of stagecraft, ‘Adam Zero,’ and come at once to Frederick Ashton's ‘Symphonic Variations,’ which caused another kind of sensation by its startling economy of means and overwhelming impression of beauty.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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